The only mitigating factor for Bizet was that disappointment was not a new experience for him. Although he was only 36 years old, Carmen was the 30th of his operas, if one tallies complete, incomplete ...

Bizet’s Carmen has everything you want from an opera: high drama, passionate characters, a love story. And what’s more it’s absolutely packed with great melodies – even if you don’t know the opera, ...

After the composer’s one-act opera Djamileh (1871), a director of Paris’s Opéra-Comique, Camille du Locle, suggested that Bizet collaborate with two of Paris’s leading librettists: Henri Meilhac and ...

When Bizet’s opera Carmen was first performed in 1875, critics reported the reception was "glacial." After only 33 performances the composer died suddenly, never to know of the international success ...

Director Carrie Cracknell, who made her Metropolitan Opera debut with a new production of Bizet’s “Carmen” on New Year’s Eve, is known for modernizing and giving a feminist edge to classic texts. Her ...

Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen has been through many cinematic iterations — Carlos Saura turned it into a flamenco spectacular, while the late Jean-Luc Godard somehow managed to come up with an ...

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Bizet came from a very musical family – his father was a composer and his mother was a pianist – and his own musical talents were obvious from an early age. In fact, he was such a talented child that ...